District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency
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Contact Information
200 I Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
United States
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Washington, DC 20003
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | Open 24 hours |
| Tuesday | Open 24 hours |
| Wednesday | Open 24 hours |
| Thursday | Open 24 hours |
| Friday | Open 24 hours |
| Saturday | Open 24 hours |
| Sunday | Open 24 hours |
Over 500 District children and teens are living outside their birth homes under the care of the public child welfare system. All these young people deserve to grow up with the security, guidance, and support only a family environment provides. What’s more, they deserve to know their community cares. Yet nearly half of all District children and youth in care are placed in Maryland. We need more foster homes in the District to keep children in their community.
CFSA continuously recruits, trains, and licenses District residents to be foster parents. CFSA offers two pathways to adoption from the public child welfare system: foster to adopt and child-specific adoption.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
Because there aren't enough foster parents in the District of Columbia, many foster kids end up living in nearby Maryland. However, D.C. has its own minimum requirements for licensing foster parents. Parents for District foster children need must:
- Be at least 21 years old
- Prove financial resources to support a child
- Rent or own a home
- Show you are healthy enough to care for a child
- Provide enough space in the house for each foster child
- Complete 30 hours of training
- Pass a Home Study
There is no minimum parenting experience required. Foster parents in the District of Columbia can be single or married, with or without biological children at home. In fact, licensed homes are often a mix of biological and foster or adopted children.
You can work outside the home or be a stay-at-home parent. To help offset the costs of childcare, foster families receive assistance for every foster child in the home.
Ratings and Reviews
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Dec 21, 2019
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Nov 29, 2019
The security staff is rude and unprofessional. This Agency's management is not providing proper oversight for the front entrance. People with business to conduct are forced to wait in open, common areas for the agency staff, who will come down to meet and discuss their cases in lobby, in earshot of everyone. NO RESPECT FOR PRIVACY OR CONFIDENTIALITY AT Security check-in and in lobby. Shameful.
Nov 20, 2019
Lost my SON 2 the SYSTEM👎👎👎😭😭😭😭😭
Nov 17, 2019
Not a friendly vibe kinda offsetting and depressing place to be
Aug 02, 2019
It's been 5 years since I legally adopted my grandchildren, I want to thank you all for really helping me during that time. The social worker I had working with me was such a wonderful person & I appreciate how well.you all look out for my grandchildren during those sad time. God be the Glory my babies are doing so well and growing like a plant. Lol